Apple Cider Vinegar Dog Repellent
Why spend so much on a ready-made dog repellent when most of these products use apple cider vinegar, which you can find at home? Make your own apple cider vinegar dog repellent at just a fraction of the price of store-bought repellents.
How to make it: For a stronger solution, just mix a cup of white vinegar with two cups of apple cider vinegar in a spray bottle.
Tip: You can even use this to keep dogs off areas inside your home.
While we love the citrus scent, dogs surprisingly dislike it.
How to make it: Mix citrus juice and the zest or scrapings from the fruit’s outer layer in a spray bottle to make dog repellent.
Option: You can also use citrus fruit peelings, cut them up into little pieces, and spread over areas in your garden you want the dogs to keep away from.
As an added bonus, aphids and ants will also stay away from the soil and your plants, with citrus peelings blocking them out.
Homemade Dog Repellent Spray Recipes
Canines have approximately 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, whereas humans only have about 6 million. Their noses are so powerful that dogs can even sense shapes and sizes of objects. This powerful sense of smell magnifies any odor, making it easy to create homemade dog repellent spray recipes that ward off canines.
***BONUS*** If you have dogs the like to chew your furniture, then try this on a small area of the fabric or wood first, then spray away. Dogs dont like the smell of orange and vinegar, but they also wont like the bitter taste, so it will keep them from chewing your furniture.
This DIY Dog Deterrent Spray can help stop indoor accidents and keep your dogs from urinating in your home.
This fall, we added a new addition to our family. Nash (that cutie you see above), had just turned a year old, and we really felt like he needed a friend to play with. So we added Bentley to the mix. Nash and Bentley immediately became the best of friends and are the sweetest little brothers ever. The only problem…they are both male, and they both want to be the alpha male. That means that they have decided to mark their territory. It originally started outside, then recently, they have moved the party inside. I guess because its been raining for over a month, they just arent outside as much as they were.
The first thing I did was thoroughly clean everything. I laundered the curtain they had decided to mark, and scrubbed the furniture and floors down with an enzymatic cleaner. There are certain cleaners that have enzyme removing agents in them that help keep the dogs from remarking the spot. At this point, I was willing to do anything to get them to stop. The next thing I did was make my own Dog Deterrent Spray. This spray has an orange scent that dogs dont really love, and I use it to keep them away from any objects (like my curtains) that I really want to protect. Bonus…it smells awesome!
Got cats? Check out my Cat Deterrent Spray to keep your cats from urinating in certain areas and scratching your furniture!
3 Homemade Dog Repellant Spray Recipes
Find out how you can easily turn ordinary household stuff and plants into a homemade dog repellent that will help keep dogs out of your garden.